July 4th Quotes

Independence Day, or the 4th of July, is quickly approaching. This holiday is the most patriotic of them all, so I have found my favorite patriotic quotes to share. These 4th of July quotes are sure to make you proud to be an American.

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.~ Rudyard Kipling

"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people." - Abraham Lincoln

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. -Erma Bombeck

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! -Thomas Jefferson

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. -John Dickinson

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it." - Andrew Jackson

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." - George William Curtis

"I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph." - Cordell Hull

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -M. Grundler

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. - How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. - Paul Sweeney

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. - William J. Clinton